and Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Manda, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿAlawī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jurjānī, Abū Ṭāhir ibn Maḥmish, and others.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim said, “They brought me to his gathering more than once, yet nothing I heard from him proved sound for me.” ⦗1⦘
He died in Shawwāl of the year 332 AH.
I (al-Dhahabī) say: I think he took up residence near the Sanctuary, and his audition is sound and plentiful in the Thaqafiyyāt ⦗2⦘.
158 – al-Qaṭṭān, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAyyāsh *
The shaykh, the traditionist, the reliable authority, the musnid of Baghdad: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAyyāsh ibn ʿĪsā al-Mattūthī ⦗3⦘, al-Baghdādī, called al-Qaṭṭān, nicknamed “the One-Eyed.”
He was born in 239 AH.
He heard hadith from: Aḥmad ibn al-Miqdām al-ʿIjlī; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah; Ibrāhīm ibn Mujashshir; al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Zaʿfarānī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān; Yaḥyā ibn al-Sarī; Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAmr al-Rabālī; ʿAlī ibn Muslim al-Ṭūsī, al-Ramādī, and al-Tarqafī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ayyūb al-Mukharimī; Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Ḥārith; Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad; al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Rabīʿ; ʿAlī ibn Ishkāb; and several others.